Provinces in Peril
Monday, December 8, 2008 at 3:38PM
So I was just watching The Daily Show with John Stewart and they were doing a, fabulously funny of course, segment on what’s been going on up in Canada. Apparently (and mind you know nothing of this situation beyond what I saw in the segment and a passing mention on TWiT) the opposition party up in Canada was attempting to initiate a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Ordinarily in this scenario the vote would be held and if the bill it was attached to failed to pass Harper would essentially no longer be the Prime Minister.
Here’s where it gets good. Harper felt the vote was unjustly called and went to the Governor General, basically the head of state but technically acts on behalf of the queen who is still the head of state in Canada, and asks her to DISSOLVE THE PARLIAMENT!! Now that is some sly political maneuvering right there no doubt about it!! The Governor General decided to go along with it and now Canada has no Parliament. Something tells me the opposition didn’t quite see that one coming. None the less a pretty cool little political science case study someday in the future no doubt. Kinda makes me wish we had cool constitutional crisis like that in this country to marvel over…well okay maybe not we’ve got enough problems on our hands I guess!
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